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I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

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Girl, Brother, Writing

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

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Marketing, Clerks, Dorms

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

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Hard Work, Giving, Fans

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

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Laughter, Real, Hero

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

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Father, Character, Trying

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

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Book, Horror, Ends

I'm beginning to think my name has been changed to 'Damn it' or 'Asshole'” Styxx

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Thinking, Names, Damn

The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they got rid of the delusions which had been spread by the Pope of Rome, and emancipated mankind from the spiritual tyranny they were under, and brought about the establishment of that religion which we now enjoy in this country.

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Spiritual, Country, Eye

Modus in rebus there must be an end of things.

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Ends

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

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Decision, Principles, Different

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

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Support, Examination, Confirmation

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

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Law, Giving, Deeds

The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.

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Country, Law

The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.

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Fire, Expression, Use

Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

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Men, Law, Practice

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

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Law, Practice, Form

It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.

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Law, Justice, Relief

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

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Country, Marine, Men

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

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Men, Law, Body

It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

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First Impression, Firsts, Sometimes

A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

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Law, Giving, Relief

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

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Men, Race, Regulation
"King v. The College of Physicians". 1797.

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

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Mean, People, May
"Williams' Case". 1797.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

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Judgment, Conviction, Certain
"King v. Harris". 1797.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

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Punishment, Essentials, Judgment
"King v. Harris". 1797.

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